Despite a multiliteracies turn to understanding L2 writing activities, most scholars in China have continued to adopt a cognitive perspective to study Chinese students’ English composing. In this article, we argue that Chinese students have always composed English writing in a multilingual and multimodal fashion. Then, drawing on recent discussions in literacy and composition studies, we propos...

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This article proposes ways to authentically amplify writer’s workshop for emergent bilinguals. Through the study of one bilingual teacher’s mediation in teaching, we examined affordances that translanguaging and transmodal practices have students’ writing processes. In this case study, focused on a sequence associated with well-known Latin American holiday Day Dead, which 3rd grade bilinguals w...